{"id":49205,"date":"2022-10-09T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/09\/taiwans-citizen-warriors-prepare-to-confront-looming-threat-from-china"},"modified":"2022-10-09T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T07:00:50","slug":"taiwans-citizen-warriors-prepare-to-confront-looming-threat-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49205","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s citizen warriors prepare to confront looming threat from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Robert Tsao bankrolls a people\u2019s militia on the island \u2013 inspired by the example of Ukraine \u2013 to defend against invasion<\/p>\n<p>On a sleepy Sunday morning 50 anonymous young men and women have wandered into a nondescript Taipei office for training with Kuma Academy. The one-day course includes cross-strait geopolitics and strategy, invasion scenarios, and disinformation. Later, they\u2019re taught the difference between the opposing armies\u2019 uniforms, and how to tie a tourniquet.<\/p>\n<p>The citizen warriors are being trained with a 1bn Taiwan dollar (\u00a328m) donation from businessman Robert Tsao. He made global headlines last month when he pledged the money to train \u201cthree million people in three years\u201d and 300,000 sharpshooters for a civilian militia. The \u201cwarrior\u201d training would be in conjunction with the academy, a volunteer civilian training organisation that launched in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/09\/taiwans-citizen-warriors-prepare-to-confront-looming-threat-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Robert Tsao bankrolls a people\u2019s militia on the island \u2013 inspired by the example of Ukraine \u2013 to defend against invasionOn a sleepy Sunday morning 50 anonymous young men and women have wandered into a nondescript Taipei office for training &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49206,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205\/revisions\/49206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}